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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The four outer borders for Lori Smith's "Miss Emilie's Garden" are glue-prepped and awaiting hand applique stitching. They are hanging out on my design wall, yelling at me every time I go down to the quilt cave to deal with the cat box or move laundry around.They may wait and yell at me for a while...my FIL fell and broke his hip early last Saturday morning and Steve flew to Philadelphia immediately to take care of his mom and monitor the hip replacement surgery. I am here to watch over looming college and scholarship deadlines and watch my daughter Riley's directorial debut with her school drama club, of which she is the president.I guess you can say I am the president of our family drama club, which has been a little busy and over produced this year...On a lighter note, my "Baltimore Rhapsody - Symphony" showed up in two quilt publications this month...first in the Dec/Jan edition of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine...

And then in the most recent American Quilter magazine...

My thanks to the editors...I sure needed the little boost. What was going to be a difficult holiday season just got more challenging. It is unlikely the three of us will be together for Christmas...Steve is needed in Pennsylvania and I am needed in Alabama.I have great hope for 2015!In stitches,Teresa :o)

18 comments:

Congratulations on having your stunning quilt featured in the magazines. Awesome! Sorry that your family is facing such challenges...sending prayers and positive thoughts for your FIL. Good luck with those scholarship applications!

Many hearlfelt blessings for you and the family. Congratulations on the two publications - this is a most spectacular quilt. Your borders are stunning and I hope they give you solice with needle and thread thru this time.

Lots of hugs and prayers for you and your family. So many dramatic changes for you and your family this year! My you and your loved ones travels be safe. But huge smiles regarding your quilt being featured in two magazines!

Love those borders---sew nice and neat. I saw the Quilters Newsletter issue & kept the pic from the magazine to add to my "famous Quilters" file!! I went to Lincoln today (50 miles south from Omaha) to visit the IQSC museum. They are doing construction to increase the size of the galleries. They had to close down the viewings as dust would affect the hanging quilts. They will be able to have more quilts to view at once & more storage for quilts. I did not get to see quilts, but the original director was there & I got to talk to her!! She started the whole process for the first collection from the James family. Oh, the appliqué quilts they have are gorgeous-----it is neat to see in person. I plan on volunteering there when the new year gets going!!!! 2015 is going to be a fantastic year & if you can hang on through the holidays-----we will be in a quilters paradise. Sorry about you FIL----good that your husband was there to help his mom. Being with family is part of Christmas---you will just be in two different places with two different families!! Safe travels & hopefully Happy Holidays

Oh my goodness Teresa, I have a feeling you will be glad to see the end of this year, it really has been a difficult one for you. Thank heavens for the occasional bright spots to keep you going.Loving your appliqué progress, just gorgeous.HugsTazziexox

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